An AkwaIbom State High Court has sentenced Pastor
Godwin Moffat (pictured above), a former NDDC
Commissioner representing Akwa Ibom State, to three
years imprisonment for stealing 56 transformers worth
N220, 176, 320 which was meant for oil producing
communities in the state.
In a 56 count charge filed in court by the EFCC, Pastor
Moffat was said to have applied for 90 electricity
transformers and 4 generators from NDDC for Akwa Ibom
State sometime in February, 2006. Approval was given
for 70 transformers but he diverted same to his house in
Eket on the pretext that there was no space to
accommodate the newly issued 70 units of transformers
at the NDDC office in Uyo.
He thereafter sent only 14 Units to NDDC office in Uyo
while he withheld 56 units which he could not account
for till date.
One of the count reads,
"That you Pastor Godwin Moffat Eyo being a
former Akwa Ibom State representative on the
Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission
(NDDC) on or about 14thApril, 2006 at Uyo in the
Uyo Judicial Division did fraudulently steal a 300
KVA/33/0.415 Transformer Serial No. 1712496
valued at Four Million, Eighteen Thousand, Five
Hundred and Sixty Naira (N4,018,560.00),
property of NDDC and thereby committed an
offence of stealing contrary to Section 399 and
punishable under Section 404 of the Criminal Code
Cap. 38, Volume 2, Laws of Akwa Ibom State,
2000".
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